31.
Dear Alexandra
Mikhailovna.
Through forgetfulness, I did not finish the letter to you that I sent today.2) Here is the address:
Mr. C. W. Fitzgerald, Secretary of the "Socialist Propaganda League",
20, Baker Street, 20, Beverly, Mass.
I was mistaken, then, in saying that he lives in Boston. But in his leaflet there are the addresses of all 18 members of this league, and among them there are those living in Boston.
I hope you will exert every effort to find out about them in the greatest possible detail and try to create from them (or from some of them) one of the strongpoints of the "Zimmerwald Left" in America.
Warm regards. Your Len[in].

*) Over the date, in Vladimir Ilyich's hand is written the return address:
Ulianow, Seideiweg 4a,
III. Bern.
The right half of the postcard (space for the recipient's address) is also filled in Vladimir Ilyich's hand with text of the following content: Mrs. Alexandra Kollontay, c/o Mr. L. Lore,
German
Language Federation Socialist Party, 15 Spruce Street, 15 New
York, U. St. America.
a) The Institute does not have this letter. It was evidently devoted to the League of Socialist Propaganda in America and to the leaflet of this League that Vladimir Ilyich received. The address given below refers to the secretary of the League.
A. Kollontai.
22/XI 1915.1)

32.
Dear A. M.! We received your letter and congratulate you once again on the success.
I was devilishly angry that "noble" France confiscated (in fact!) a number of my registered letters to you in Am[erica]. Nothing to be done about it.
Now you must apply all your efforts to maintaining relations with Am[erica].
After all, you wrote to me that you received Internationales Flugblatt No. 1 in German in Am[erica] and that you would try to publish them in English*! And now not a word about them??
What does this mean?!
Surely in Am[erica] there were not sympathizers to be found and it was not possible to publish the Internationales Flugblatt in English????
Incredible!
But if it is nonetheless so, one must publish it in Norway (in English).
Will you undertake to translate it, and how much will it cost to publish?
Then I wrote to you in Am[erica] that I received from Boston, Mass. a leaflet of the "Socialist Propaganda League" (signed by 20 socialists with addresses, S. r. Massachusetts). This league is internationalist, with a program that clearly tends to the left.
I sent them an enormous letter in English (and the Internationales Flugblatt in German). No answer. Did "noble" France confiscate it?2)
If you have not received it and know nothing about them, I will send you their address and a copy of my letter. Will you undertake to forward it to Am[erica]?
A Socialist Labour Party? After all, they are internationalists (though with a narrow, sectarian odor). Did you deliver the Internationales Flugblatt to them? Do you have connections with them??
A. Kollontai.
19/III 1916.

LENIN. ---- LETTER 4. KOLLONTAI.

Further. You wrote that you had begun negotiations with Charles Kerr. What came of it? He promised, you say, to print a part of our br[ochure] with Lenin and Z[inoviev]. But now you are silent about this... How is one to understand this?
Internationale Korrespondenz reported that "New Review" in Am[erica] undertook to print articles by the Zimmerwald Left. Is this true? Do you know "New Review"?
Answer quickly and in greater detail. Regarding direct mail steamships from Norway to Am[erica] you will, of course, find out everything in the greatest detail.
Regarding Hoglund and the Norwegians I have so far been unable to get a clear answer as to whether they received the Internationales Flugblatt, whether they published it in Swedish and Norwegian, whether they officially joined the Zimmerwald Left (in the way that "Rev. Soz. Verband" of Roland-Holst has done). Please, I ask you, make inquiries, find out, insist, scold them, force them, keep an eye on them! Let Bukharin inform you of what we wrote to him in a special letter about the Zimmerwald people, and you keep watch over the carrying out of this.
Regards! Your Lenin.3)

P. S. What interesting books and brochures have you brought? Schlüter's History of Chartism? And what else?

P. S. I am sending our "theses" (from Vorbote No. 2).4) Explain this to the Scandinavians.

[Postscript by N. K. Krupskaya.]
Warm regards. N. K[rupskaya].

*) This concerns the "International Flying Leaflet"—"Internationales Flugblatt" No. 1, about the publication of which was spoken of in letter No. 29.
2) See letter No. 30.
3) After the signature follows the return address of the letter: Address: Herrn Ulianow (Schubladen Kämmerer), Spiegelgasse 12, Z ü r i c h I, written in Vladimir Ilyich's hand.
4) "Vorbote"—"The Harbinger," Organ of the Zimmerwald Left. The letter below from Vladimir Ilyich to G. Roland-Holst acquaints one with the history of internal editorial relations. A total of 2 issues appeared, numbered January 1916 for the 1st and April 1916 for the 2nd. In the 1st issue was included an article by V. I. Lenin on "Der Opportunismus und der Zusammenbruch der II Internationale," now—